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Author : Matthew Alfs
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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book The Evocative Religion of Jehovah's Witnesses written by Matthew Alfs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538119528
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses written by George D. Chryssides and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating from a small group of Bible students who met under Charles Taze Russell’s leadership and grew into an international Society, to which the second leader Joseph Franklin Rutherford and gave the name ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’. Two World Wars shaped Watch Tower attitudes to civil government, armed conflict, and medical innovations such as blood transfusion, as well as to mainstream churches. The twenty-first century has seen some important changes in the Watch Tower organization, and coverage is given to changes in organizational structure, its use of the World Wide Web, and its major relocation from Brooklyn to Warwick. This updated second edition of Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key concepts, themes, and people relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Jehovah's Witnesses.
Author : William W. Zellner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781572599536
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Extraordinary Groups written by William W. Zellner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text covering different groups in today's society like Jehovah's Witnesses, Amish, Gypsies, Mormons, etc. New chapter on Unitarian Universalists.
Author : Ralph L. Piedmont
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047411412
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 17 written by Ralph L. Piedmont and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of RSSSR contains articles on conversion narratives of Jehovah’s witnesses, belief in an active Satan, afterlife beliefs, religiosity and parenting and spirituality as coping resource.
Author : Firpo W. Carr
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Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Jehovah's Witnesses written by Firpo W. Carr and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard T. Schaefer
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 147863183X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Extraordinary Groups written by Richard T. Schaefer and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Groups has had a storied history of excellence over multiple editions. Now available from Waveland Press at the start of its fifth decade of availability, its interdisciplinary approach to groups engaged in unconventional lifestyles makes it a popular textbook choice in hundreds of college courses across the social sciences, including anthropology, religion, history, and psychology. Written by sociologists, using and illustrating sociological principles, the book is appealing because it is descriptive and explanatory rather than analytical. Descriptions of the groups are interwoven with basic sociological concepts, but systematic analysis and inductive reasoning are left to the discretion of the instructor. Extraordinary Groups is a compelling overview of the broad tapestry of social life that constitutes the United States. The illustrated, full-featured Ninth Edition includes a glossary and end-of-chapter key terms, sources on the Web, and selected readings.
Author : M. James Penton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802079732
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Apocalypse Delayed written by M. James Penton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. James Penton offers a comprehensive overview of a remarkable religious movement, from the Witnesses' inauspicious creation by a Pennsylvania preacher in the 1870s to its position as a religious sect with millions of followers world-wide. This second edition features an afterword by the author and an expanded bibliography.
Author : Firpo W. Carr
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jehovah's Witnesses written by Firpo W. Carr and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Lynch
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ISBN 13 : 0786725648
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Thought Contagion written by Aaron Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired Magazine) will revel in Aaron Lynch’s groundbreaking examination of memetics--the new study of how ideas and beliefs spread. What characterizes a meme is its capacity for displacing rival ideas and beliefs in an evolutionary drama that determines and changes the way people think. Exactly how do ideas spread, and what are the factors that make them genuine thought contagions? Why, for instance, do some beliefs spread throughout society, while others dwindle to extinction? What drives those intensely held beliefs that spawn ideological and political debates such as views on abortion and opinions about sex and sexuality?By drawing on examples from everyday life, Lynch develops a conceptual basis for understanding memetics. Memes evolve by natural selection in a process similar to that of Genes in evolutionary biology. What makes an idea a potent meme is how effectively it out-propagates other ideas. In memetic evolution, the "fittest ideas” are not always the truest or the most helpful, but the ones best at self replication.Thus, crash diets spread not because of lasting benefit, but by alternating episodes of dramatic weight loss and slow regain. Each sudden thinning provokes onlookers to ask, "How did you do it?” thereby manipulating them to experiment with the diet and in turn, spread it again. The faster the pounds return, the more often these people enter that disseminating phase, all of which favors outbreaks of the most pathogenic diets. Like a software virus traveling on the Internet or a flu strain passing through a city, thought contagions proliferate by programming for their own propagation. Lynch argues that certain beliefs spread like viruses and evolve like microbes, as mutant strains vie for more adherents and more hosts. In its most revolutionary aspect, memetics asks not how people accumulate ideas, but how ideas accumulate people. Readers of this intriguing theory will be amazed to discover that many popular beliefs about family, sex, politics, religion, health, and war have succeeded by their "fitness” as thought contagions.
Author : Erwin Fahlbusch
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802824158
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (241 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Christianity written by Erwin Fahlbusch and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Encyclopedia of Christianity is the first of a five-volume English translation of the third revised edition of Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon. Its German articles have been tailored to suit an English readership, and articles of special interest to English readers have been added. The encyclopedia describes Christianity through its 2000-year history within a global context, taking into account other religions and philosophies. A special feature is the statistical information dispersed throughout the articles on the continents and over 170 countries. Social and cultural coverage is given to such issues as racism, genocide, and armaments, while historical content shows the development of biblical and apostolic traditions."--"Outstanding reference sources 2000", American Libraries, May 2000. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.
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Download or read book Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Publisher : Freeminds
ISBN 13 : 0709180136
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Visions of Glory written by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison and published by Freeminds. This book was released on 1980 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Thomas Miller
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Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Toward Benevolent Neutrality written by Robert Thomas Miller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo P. Chall
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Total Pages : 906 pages
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Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Buckser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742517783
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Religious Conversion written by Andrew Buckser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Emily B. Baran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190495499
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Dissent on the Margins written by Emily B. Baran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily B. Baran offers a gripping history of how a small, American-based religious community, the Jehovah's Witnesses, found its way into the Soviet Union after World War II, survived decades of brutal persecution, and emerged as one of the region's fastest growing religions after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. In telling the story of this often misunderstood faith, Baran explores the shifting boundaries of religious dissent, non-conformity, and human rights in the Soviet Union and its successor states. Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses are a fascinating case study of dissent beyond urban, intellectual nonconformists. Witnesses, who were generally rural, poorly educated, and utterly marginalized from society, resisted state pressure to conform. They instead constructed alternative communities based on adherence to religious principles established by the Witnesses' international center in Brooklyn, New York. The Soviet state considered Witnesses to be the most reactionary of all underground religious movements, and used extraordinary measures to try to eliminate this threat. Yet Witnesses survived, while the Soviet system did not. After 1991, they faced continuing challenges to their right to practice their faith in post-Soviet states, as these states struggled to reconcile the proper limits on freedom of conscience with European norms and domestic concerns. Dissent on the Margins provides a new and important perspective on one of America's most understudied religious movements.
